Holocaust Literature -- A-Z Entries List

(Please note that the appropriate diacritical marks and accents are provided throughout the book, but are not included in the below entries list. List is not final and is subject to change prior to publication.)

Victoria Aarons, Professor of English at Trinity University, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction (University of Georgia Press), which received the CHOICE Award for an Outstanding Academic Title, 1996. Aarons has written numerous essays in scholarly journals and books on American Jewish literature, including a recent piece on Philip Roth, in the special issue of Shofar (2000). She is currently working on the literature of second-generation Holocaust writers.

Dvir Abramovich, Jan Randa Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, has Bachelor degrees in Arts and Law from Monash University, a Master of Arts, and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. Dr. Abramovich lectures in modern Hebrew literature, language, and Judaic studies at the Hebrew and Jewish studies program at the University of Melbourne, in particular courses such as introduction to modern Jewish culture, the modern Jewish world and Israel, reading the Holocaust, exploring the world of Jewish literature, and Jerusalem in Jewish literature. He has also edited a book on Jewish literature for UWA press to be published in 2003. He is the editor of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, and has published widely in professional and non-professional publications. Dr. Abramovich is the Chairperson of the Hebrew Culture department at the State Zionist Council and Vice President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.

Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska is a Professor of American and Comparative Literature and Head of the Center for Jewish Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She is a translator from English and Yiddish and held visiting fellowships at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Columbia University and Brandeis University. Her major publications include Isaac Bashevis Singer's Poland: Exile and Return [in Polish] (1994) and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (2001), a collaboration with Antony Polonsky. She is also on the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.

Ehrhard Bahr is a Professor of German at the University of California, Los Angeles. He authored a book on Nelly Sachs and articles on Jewish emancipation, exile literature, and Holocaust literature.

Lee Behlman is an Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University. His research interests and upcoming publications are in the fields of Victorian studies and literature and religion.

Pascale Bos is an Assistant Professor of Netherlandic and Germanic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published articles on Holocaust literature and gender and the Holocaust. She is currently working on a monograph on German Jewish survivor authors and on a study on Dutch second-generation authors.

Kathrin Bower is an Associate Professor of German and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at the University of Richmond, Virginia, and the author of Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausländer (2000). She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Institute for German-Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has written and published on German Holocaust poetry and reception, contemporary German-Jewish literature, and gender and identity politics in German film.

Stephan Braese, Studies of German history and didactics of higher education at University of Hamburg. Dr. Phil. 1994. 1995-1997 Postdoc fellow of Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at Hebrew University Jerusalem. 1998-2000 Fellowship with the German Research Foundation. Since 2000 private lecturer in Bremen.

David Brauner is a lecturer in English and the Director of American Studies at the University of Reading (UK). He has authored Post-war Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self-explanation and Transatlantic Connections (Palckave, 2000) as well as articles on Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley, and many contemporary American-Jewish and British-Jewish writers.

Steven Dedalus Burch is an Actor, Director, and Playwright. He is the recipient of a playwriting fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches Theatre History at Allegheny College as a visiting Assistant Professor of Communication/Arts/Theatre.

Holly Burmeister is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan.

Janet Handler Burstein is a Professor of English Literature at Drew University. She has written numerous articles on Victorian literature, women's literature, and American Jewish literature; She has published Writing Mother, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women (University of Illinois, 1996); and is working on a book about the last two decades of American Jewish writers.

Ezra Cappell is a Ph.D. from New York University where he currently holds the American Literature Fellowship. Cappell has taught literature and non-fiction writing at New York University, and creative writing at the City College of New York. He has published widely on American and Jewish American fiction, and his critical study American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction is forthcoming from the State University of New York Press (2002). Cappell is also completing a memoir, Hide and Seek in Rego Park.

Joshua Charlson has been a lecturer and visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. He is working on a study, based on his dissertation, exploring American cultural representations of the Holocaust. He has published articles on Art Spiegelman's Maus in Arizona Quarterly and Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet in Centennial Review.

Richard Chess is an Associate Professor of Literature and Language at the University of Northern Carolina, Asheville, where he directs UNCA's Center for Jewish Studies. He has published two books of poetry: Chair in the Desert (University of Tampa Press, 2000) and Tekian (University of Georgia Press, 1994). His poems have been anthologized in Telling and Remembering: A Century of American-Jewish Poetry (Beacon, 1997) and elsewhere.

Amy Colin, who has personal ties to Paul Celan and the Bukovina, is the author of the monograph Paul Celan: Holograms of Darkness (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991) as well as essays on Bukovina's multifaceted literature, Shoah poetry written in German, and German-Jewish literature, in particular women's writing. She is also editor of Argumentum e Silentio: International Paul Celan Symposium (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987) and co-editor of Bridging the Abyss: Reflections on Jewish Suffering, Anti-Semitism, and Exile (Munich: W. Fink Verlag, 1994) and Versunkene Dichtung der Bukowina: Eine Anthologie deutschsprachiger Lyrik (Munich: W. Fink Verlag, 1994). After obtaining her Ph.D. from Yale, she taught and pursued her research projects at the Universities of Washington, Cambridge, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Harvard, FU Berlin, Denis Diderot-Paris 7, and the Maison des Science de l'Homme.

Colin Davis is a Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His research is principally concerned with post-war French fiction and thought. He is the author of Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction (1988), Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts (1994), Levinas: An Introduction (1996), Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction: Killing the Other (2000), and (in collaboration with Elizabeth Fallaize) French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire (2000).

Juliette Dickstein received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard and at Intercollege, Cyprus, where she was Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages. Her research interests concern questions of nationalism and identity, and the consequences of traumatic history for literature, film, and historiography. She has published articles on postwar French Jewish writing. Currently, she is working as an education consultant for the United Nations Development Program in Cyprus.

Norbert Otto Eke, Studies in Paderborn and Berlin: Free University (Germanic Literature and Theology); 1988 Dr. phil., 1995 Dr. phil habil; Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Paderborn. Main areas of expertise: theatre and literary theory, contemporary German Literature and German-Jewish literature; literature of the early 19th century. Numerous Publications on German Literature from the 18th century to the present day, including German-Jewish relations. Last book publications: Heiner Müller (Stuttgart 1999), Literatur und Demokratie (ed., Berlin 2000), Deutsche Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts (ed., Berlin 2000), Vormärz - Nachmärz. Bruch oder Kontinuität (ed., Bielefeld 2000).

Norman Fedder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Kansas State University. He is the former director of graduate studies and the founder/director of the K.S.U. Drama Therapy program. A member of the Kansas Theatre Hall of Fame, he is the author of a book on Tennessee Williams, articles on dramatic literature, and more than thirty produced plays. He is also a registered drama therapist/board certified trainer. He founded the drama network of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Theater.

Anat Feinberg studied English literature and theater in Tel Aviv and London (Ph.D.University of London, 1979). She lectured at Tel Aviv University and currently, she is Professor for Hebrew and Jewish Literature at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg. Dr. Feinberg has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, German theater, and Israeli literature and culture. Among her publications are Wiedergutmachung im Programm. Jüdisches Schicksal im deutschen Nachkriegsdrama (Prometh Verlag,1988) and Kultur in Israel (Bleicher Verlag,1993). Her study Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori was published by the University of Iowa Press (1999), and her German biography of Tabori will appear in 2003 in the series "Portrait" with Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag.

Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is the author of The Literary Speech Act (1984), Writing and Madness (1985), Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight (1987), and What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (1993). She is also the editor of Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading -- Otherwise (1982), the co-author, with Dori Laub, of Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (1992), and the author of The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).

Hilene Flanzbaum is an Associate Professor of English at Butler University, where she also directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches Literature of the Holocaust. She is the editor of The Americanization of the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999) and the managing editor of Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and leads seminars on teaching the Holocaust at the high school and university level.

Kristie Foell held a Fulbright research fellowship to Vienna, where she researched her dissertation on Elias Canetti (University of California, Berkeley, 1992). Her study of gender in Canetti's novel was published by Ariadne Press in 1994. She is an Assistant Professor of German at Bowling Green State University. Other research interests include German film and music, and post-unification German literature, which she studied with a second Fulbright to Berlin in 1995. Textual Responses to German Unification is forthcoming from de Gruyter and is co-edited by Foell.

Eva Fogelman is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate Center CUNY. Dr. Fogelman is co-director of the Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas, Training Institute for Mental Health. She co-directs an international study of organized persecution of children, Child Development Research.

Robert Franciosi is an Associate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University. His work on Holocaust literature includes papers and articles on such writers as John Hersey, William Styron, Art Spiegelman, Charlottle Delbo, and Charles Reznikoff. He is the editor of Elie Wiesel: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2002).

Esther Frank is a Faculty Lecturer at the Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University. She teaches Jewish and Yiddish literatures and Yiddish language.

Lea Wernick Fridman is an Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York and has written extensively on the issue of catastrophe and representational limit. She is the author of Words and Witness: Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies in the Representation of the Holocaust (SUNY, 2000).

Roger Friedmann is an instructor in the English department at Kansas State University, where he teaches technical writing and literature. His short story, "Sabras," was published in The Cimarron Review in 1984.

Marianne Friedrich received her Ph.D. in English, American Language, and Literature from the University of Heidelberg. She studied and taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (Fulbright). She taught at Kent State University, Ohio, and at Webster University, St. Louis. Her publications include the book, Character and Narration in the Short Fiction of Saul Bellow, articles in journals, and book chapters in Saul Bellow: A Mosaic, Saul Bellow at Seventy-Five, A Collection of Critical Essays. Her translations include contributions to Simon Wiesenthal's new edition of The Sunflower.

Andrew Furman, Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination (SUNY, 1997) and Contemporary Jewish-American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma (Syracuse, 2000). His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including Forward, MELUS, Contemporary Literature, Midstream, Response, Studies in American Jewish Culture, Modern Jewish Studies, Jewish Currents, and the Miami Herald. He is a contributing editor of Tikkun.

Ben Furnish is Managing Editor of BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he teaches. He has contributed to Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-critical Sourcebook, The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, The Sixties in America, and other publications. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.

Mark Gelber holds the Ph.D. fromYale University. He is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. He was elected to membership in the German Academy of Language and Literature (Darmstadt) and has held visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Graz. Dr. Gelber is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and his major areas of research include literary antisemitism, cultural Zionism, exile literature, and the literary and cultural legacy of central European Jewry.

Simone Gigliotti taught modern European and Holocaust history in the Department of History at University of Melbourne, Australia. She is now a fellow of that department and was a postdoctoral fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She will be at the University of West Indies in Jamaica during 2002-2003. Her book Travel and Trauma in the Holocaust is under contract with Berghahn Books, War, and Genocide Series.

Dorota Glowacka is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Contemporary Studies Programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, Canada. She teaches critical theory, feminist theory and literature, and Holocaust literature. Glowacka has published numerous articles and reviews in the area of critical theory, American, Polish, and French literature, as well as Holocaust literature and art. She has edited Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (SUNY, 2001). Her work focuses on representations of the Holocaust in literature and art in the context of contemporary philosophical debates. She is working on a book, The Shattered Word: Writing of the Fragment and the Holocaust Testimony.

Myrna Goldenberg, Director of the Paul Peck Humanities Institute at Montgomery College, teaches Holocaust literature and film at Montgomery College, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. She is an active Holocaust scholar, working primarily in two areas: women's experiences and the teaching of the Holocaust. A member of the Goldner Symposium on the Holocaust, a frequent speaker at national and international Holocaust conferences, Dr. Goldenberg has contributed many articles and chapters to the field.

Emanuel S. Goldsmith is a Professor of Yiddish and Hebrew Language and Literature, Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement, the editor of the two-volume anthology, Yiddish Literature in America: 1870-2000 (in Yiddish), and the co-editor of The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Teachers and Thinkers of Modern Judaism and Events and Movements of Modern Judaism.

Robert Gordon is a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He previously taught at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie within modern Italian culture. He translated and co-edited (with Marco Belpoliti) Primo Levi, The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1981 (New Press, 2000), and he authored Pasolini. Forms of Subjectivity (Oxford University Press, 1997) and Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues. From Testimony to Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Claudia Hoffer Gosselin, Lecturer in French at California State University, Long Beach, teaches all levels of French language and literature, with a focus on translation. She is the literary and technical editor of The Translators' French Quarterly, sponsored by the Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. A specialist on the contemporary French author, Claude Simon, she will be contributing an article on his World War II novel La Route des Flandres to a volume of essays to be published in 2003.

Tresa Grauer is a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her recent publications include ""The Changing Same": Narratives of Contemporary Jewish American Identity," in Mapping Jewish Identities, edited by Larry Silberstein, and "A Drastically Bifurcated Legacy: Homeland and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Jewish American Literature," in Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America, edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen.

Michael Greenstein is an Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University. Author of Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Canadian-Jewish Literature (McGill-Queens UP, 1989), he has published 70 articles on Jewish literature and is currently editing Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada for the University of Nebraska Press.

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Hanoch Guy was awarded a Ph.D. in Modern Hebrew Poetry by Dropsie College and an Ed.D. by Temple University where he teaches. His specialty is Yiddish and Hebrew poetry of the Shoah. He has published articles and presented papers in U.S. conferences and in Oxford and Israel. Dr. Guy is preparing for publication a volume of poetry entitled: Terra Treblinka.

Marlene Heinemann is an Instructor of English at Edmonds Community College. She is the author of Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust (Greenwood Press, 1986). Heinemann who holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University, has taught all levels of German to American college students at five universities.

Kathryn Hellerstein is a Senior Fellow in Yiddish and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Wellesley, Brandeis, and Stanford, she is known as a poet and a translator, as well as a scholar of Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein's books include her translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's poems, In New York: A Selection (Jewish Publication Society, 1982), Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Wayne State University Press, 1999), and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is co-editor (W. W. Norton, 2000). Her current projects include Anthology of Women Yiddish Poets and a critical book, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, supported in 1999-2000 by a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Donna Krolik Hollenberg is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She has published two books about H.D., as well as essays about other twentieth-century writers in the U.S. and in Canada. Most recently, she has edited a collection of essays, H.D. and Poets After (University of Iowa, 2000). She has also published an article on Canadian Jewish history, "At the Western Development Museum: Ethnic Identity and the Memory of the Holocaust in the Jewish Community of Saskatoon, Sakatchewan," in The Oral History Review.

Robert Holub teaches German literary, cultural, and intellectual history at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and seventy-five essays. Among his publications are Reception Theory (1984), Reflections of Realism (1991), Jürgen Habermas (1991), Crossing Borders (1992), and Friedrich Nietzsche (1995). He is currently working on a study of Nietzsche and the discourses of the nineteenth century.

Sara Horowitz is the Associate Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, which received the CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title, she has published extensively on Holocaust literature, women's studies, and contemporary Jewish writing. She is completing Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory. Co-editor of the journal KEREM: Creative Explorations in Judaism, she served as associate editor for fiction of Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook, which received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award for Outstanding Judaica Reference Book.

Brooke Horvath, Professor of English at Kent State University, served for several years as an editor with the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He has published articles and reviews in numerous journals and periodicals including American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, American Poetry Review, Southern Quarterly, and many more. Along with Irving Malin, he is the editor of Pynchon and Mason & Dixon and George Garrett's Elizabethan Trilogy; and along with Joseph Dewey, the author of The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave: Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James.

Rita Horváth holds the M.A. in English, M.A. in Archaeology, and M.A. in History from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her Ph.D. studies were in the English Literature Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. A Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence supported her dissertation on confessional poetry. Her major fields of interest are Holocaust literature and autobiographical writing.

Edward Isser is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Holy Cross, Worchester, Mass. Isser is the author of Stages of Annihilation (Associated UP, 1997) and has published articles in journals such as Modern Drama, Essays in Theatre, The Shaw Annual, and The Shakespeare Bulletin. He is the director of the Interactive Shakespeare Project and has directed productions at Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Providence College, Brown University, and Holy Cross. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regional theatres as an actor, production manager, and stage manager.

Jonathan Judaken is an Assistant Professor of modern European cultural and intellectual history at the University of Memphis. After completing his degree at the University of California, Irvine, was a postdoctoral fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is preparing his dissertation, "Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question," for publication. Judaken has published articles on Sartre in Patterns of Prejudice, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, Tympanum, and in La Voyage de l'intelligence forthcoming in France. He also has published in History Workshop Journal, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and in two forthcoming books discussing Jean-Francois Lyotard, the developing field of Jewish cultural studies, and reflections on the "Jewish Question" in France after World War II.

Samuel Kassow is Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. In addition to numerous articles in Russian and Jewish history, he is the author of Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia: 1884-1917 (University of California Press, 1989) and a co-editor of Between Tsar and People (Princeton University Press, 1993). Kassow is working on a book, to be published by Indiana University Press, about Emanuel Ringelblum and the underground archives of the Warsaw ghetto.

Judith Kauffmann is an Associate Professor of French at Bar-Ilan University and former head of the French department. Among her recent publications are Grotesque et Marginalité. Variations sur Albert Cohen et l'effet-Mangeclous (Peter Lang, 2000) and the co-edition of a collection of essays on Literature and W.W.II, Literature et Reststance (Presses Universitaires de Reims Champagne-Ardennes, 2000). She has written articles on Francophone contemporary literature, with a main focus on humor (visual and verbal, black, Jewish, and feminine), on marginality and minorities, and on war, resistance, and Shoah (in fiction and poetry).

Judith Kelly studied Italian at the University of Leeds, and then Hull, where she completed her doctoral dissertation on the writings of Primo Levi. She has held the post of Lecturer in Italian at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, that of Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Central Lancashire, and is currently Visiting Lecturer in Italian at the University of Lancaster and Associate Lecturer with the Open University. Her publications include Primo Levi: Recording and Reconstruction in the Testimonial Literature (Market Harborough: Troubador, 2000), an essay on translations of Primo Levi's works in the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), and "Communication Holocaust Experience. Primo Levi: Source Texts and Translations" in Scenes of Change: Studies in Cultural Transition (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1997).

Samuel Khalifa is completing his Ph.D. on Patrick Modiano in the department of French Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He also teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris) and in business schools. His principal research concerns memory and the representation of urban space. His interests include contemporary European cinema and life writing.

Julia Klimek holds the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Davis. She teaches at Coker College where she is an Assistant Professor of English.

Wulf Koepke is Distinguished Professor of German, Texas A & M University, now retired. He has written and edited books and articles on German exile literature including texts on L. Tenchtwanger, Alfred Döblin, and Heinrich Mann, as well as on German 18th century literature of J.G. Herder and Jean Paul Richter. He is an active Modern Language Association member having served as president of the German Studies Association and founding president of the International J.G. Herder Society.

S. Lillian Kremer teaches courses in American literature, ethnic and women's writing, and Holocaust literature and film in the Department of English at Kansas State University where she is a University Distinguished Professor. Holder of several NEH Fellowships and the Jewish Memorial Foundation Fellowship, she is the author of Witness Through the Imagination: The Holocaust in Jewish American Literature and Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. Kremer's articles have appeared in Modern Language Studies, Contemporary Literature, Modern Jewish Studies, Saul Bellow Journal, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and numerous essay collections. She is the former president of the Jewish American Literature MLA Discussion Group, and serves as a juror for the Edward Lewis Wallant Prize in Jewish American literature and on the editorial board of several journals.

Phyllis B. Lassner is a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University in Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, and the Writing Program. She is author of two books on Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, many articles on interwar and World War II women writers, and, most recently, Battlegrounds of Their Own: British Women Writers of World War II.

Dick van Galen Last, awarded a Masters Degree on History by the University of Amsterdam, is a librarian and researcher at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. He has written and reviewed extensively for the national press of the Netherlands and, along with Rolf Wolfswinkel, he is the author of Anne Frank and After (Amsterdam, 1996). He published three bibliographies in The Bulletin of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War (nrs. 26, 29, 30/31). More recently, he has written the chapter on the Netherlands for a book edited by Bob Moore, The Resistance in Western Europe (Oxford, 2000).

Peter Lawson has recently completed his doctoral dissertation on Twentieth-Century Anglo-Jewish poetry at the University of Southampton, England. He is the editor of Passionate Renewal (2001), an anthology of Jewish poetry in Britain since 1945, published by Five Leaves. His poems and essays on Jewish poets have appeared in several journals, including The Jerusalem Review, The Jewish Quarterly, and New Voices in Jewish Thought.

Andrew Leak is a Senior Lecturer in French at University College, London. He is the author of books on Sartre and Barthes and editor of a volume of essays on literary representations of the Holocaust. He has written extensively on Georges Perec, as well as one of Perec's English translators. Dr. Leak is currently president of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies and co-executive editor of Sartre Studies International.

Sharon Leder is an Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of Jewish Studies Project at Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York. She is also coordinator of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Institute. She is co-editor with Milton Teichman of Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems of the Holocaust (1994) and The Burdens of History: Post-Holocaust Generations in Dialogue (2000).

Joseph Abraham Levi holds a Ph.D. in Romance Philology, with a concentration in Portuguese, Medieval Spanish, and Italian, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught Portuguese at the University of Georgia and Portuguese, Medieval Spanish, Medieval Islam, Islam in Africa, and History of Africa at the University of Iowa. He now teaches at Rhode Island College. His publications focus on the medieval periods of the Iberian Peninsula, Colonial Brazilian literature, the Sephardic Diaspora in the Americas during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, history of the Portuguese expansion, the Lusophone world, as well as Portuguese philology and pedagogy.

Tobe Levin is a Collegiate Professor at the University of Maryland in Europe. She teaches women's Holocaust memoirs published in the USA at the University of Frankfurt and reviews books on Gender and the Holocaust for the European Journal of Women's Studies. Editor of Feminist Europa. Review of Books (in gender studies published in European languages other than English), she also writes about German, Austrian, African American, and Jewish women writers.

Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of a critical study of twentieth-century Polish poetry, Contemporary Polish Poetry: 1925-1975 (1984), and essays on Polish literary representations of the Holocaust. Her most recent translations are Milosz's ABC's by Czeslaw Milosz (2001), Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland by Agata Tuszynska (1998), and Bread for the Departed, a novel of the Warsaw Ghetto by Bogdan Wojdowski (1997).

Darrell B. Lockhart is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a specialist in Latin American Jewish literature and culture. He has published numerous articles in this area and he is the editor of Latin American Jewish Writers: A Dictionary (1997).

Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, Professor of German at the University of Illinois, Chicago, focuses her research on Austrian and German Jewish literary and cultural issues and Holocaust studies with an emphasis on history and social thought, aesthetics, and minority discourses. Recent book publications include Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997) and Verfolgung bis zu Massenmord. Duskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (1992). Edited volumes include Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria (University of Nebraska, 1999), Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German-Speaking Countries, co-editor: Renate S. Posthofen (1998), and Insiders and Outsiders. Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria (1994).

Magdalena Maiz-Peña is an Associate Professor at Davidson College, North Carolina. She is born and raised in Mexico and she holds a Ph.D from Arizona State University. Dr. Maiz-Peña is the author of Identidad, nacíon y gesto autobiografico (1998) and co-author of Modalidades de representacíon del sujeto auto/biografico femenino (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 1997). Her research is centered around gender, auto/biography, and biographical studies in Latin America. She is co-editing "Género, discurso y resistencia: Elena Poniatowska ante la crónica,"to be published in Mexico and she is working on a monographic project, Gender, Proper Names, & Auto/Biographical Signatures: Mexico 1920-1950. She serves on several MLA committees and other academic committees.

Paul Marcus is a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society.

Diane Matza is a Professor of English at Utica College. She has written widely on the immigrant experience of Sephardi Jews in America and on Sephardi American writers. Her work has appeared in Midstream, Shofar, American Jewish Archives, and American Jewish History. She is the editor of Sephardic American Voices: 200 Years of a Literary Legacy.

Steve McCullough is a doctoral candidate at Dalhousie University and editor of the journal Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Studies. He is pursuing dissertation research into deconstruction, feminism, and women's Holocaust memoirs.

David Mesher is a Professor of English and Humanities and Coordinator of Jewish Studies at San Jose State University. He has published articles on Jewish writers such as Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, and I.B. Singer.

Joan Michelson is an Associate Senior Lecturer in English: Creative Writing and Holocaust Studies, at the University of Wolverhampton, England. Her essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have been published in periodicals and anthologies including The Jewish Quarterly, The Dybbuk of Delight: An Anthology of Jewish Women's Poetry, The British Journal of Holocaust Education, the British Council's annual anthologies of New Writing from England, and Remembering the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide (Macmillan, 2001). She has received writing awards from the Poetry Society of England, the Virginia Center for the Arts (USA). Moreover, she has been a writer-in-residence at the Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany.

Goldie Morgentaler is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. She is author of Dickens and Heredity (Palgrave, 2000) and of several scholarly articles on Dickens. She has also published numerous translations from Yiddish to English, including the novels and short fiction of Clara Rosenfarb and the stories of I.L. Peretz.

David Myers is an Associate Professor of English and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 (Prentice Hall, 1996), and his Holocaust publications include "Responsible for Every Single Pain" in Comparative Literature and "Jews Without Memory" in American Literary History. He is now completing Canonizing the Holocaust, a book-length study.

Alice S. Nakhimovsky is a Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Russian at Colgate University, and an active member in Colgate's program in Jewish Studies. Her research interests are in Russian-Jewish literature, culture, and behavior. Among her books are Russian Jewish Literature and Identity (Johns Hopkins, 1992) and, together with Alexander Nakhimovsky, Witness To History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei (Aperture, 1997). Most recently, she has written on the Russian writers Il'ya Il'f and Mikhail Zhvanetsky, as well as translated the autobiography of the artist Grisha Bruskin. Her teaching at Colgate University includes courses in Russian literature, Russian language, and Jewish literature.

Stanley Nash is a Professor of Hebrew Literature at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. He is the author of In Search of Hebraism: Shai Hurwitz and His Polemics in the Hebrew Press, and the editor of Migvan: Studies in Honor of Jacob Kabakoff, Ben Historiyyah le-Sifrut: Studies in Honor of Isaac Barzila, and numerous articles on Hebrew literary figures, novels, themes, and trends. Dr. Nash holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and Rabbinic Ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary. He has lectured and written widely in both English and Hebrew and is the author of numerous articles in Prooftexts and Hadoar. He is working on a book on the Hebrew novelist Aharon Megged. Nash has also taught at Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York University, Drew University, and campuses of the City University of New York. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and academic presses.

Anita Norich is an Associate Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Indiana University Press, 1991) and the co-editor of Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (Harvard and JTS, 1992). She teaches, lectures, and publishes on a range of topics concerning Yiddish language and literature, modern Jewish culture, Jewish American literature, and Holocaust literature.

Ranen Omer-Sherman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami where he teaches courses in English and Jewish Studies. His essays on Jewish writers have appeared in journals such as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Religion and Literature, MELUS, Shofar, and Modernism/Modernity. His recent book is Diaspora and Zionism in the Jewish-American Imagination (UP New England/BrandeisUP, 2002).

Michael Ossar is a Professor at Kansas State University where he served as head of the Department of Modern Languages. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the Freie Universität, Berlin. He has taught at Swarthmore College, the University of Freiburg, the University of Giessen, and Sweet Briar College. He is the author of Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller (SUNY Press), and he has published essays on Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Arthur Schnitzler, Barbara Frischmuth, Adolf Muschg, Heinrich von Kleist, Goethe, Ernst Toller, Christoph Hein, and others.

Harriet L. Parmet is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature where she taught Hebrew at Lehigh University. She specializes in modern Israeli literature in translation, particularly the work of women writers. She was the co-author of a study of feminist religious views on reproductive technologies and a major article on Haviva Reik, a heroine of the Holocaust. Co-founder of Lehigh University's Jewish Studies program and founder of the Jewish Colloquia series, Parmet was responsible for Lehigh's Judaic library acquisitions. She has published in Midstream, Feminist Teacher, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Jewish Spectator, Nemla Modern Language Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Shofar, Visions International, Hakol, and Literary Review and Jewish Women in America--An Historical Encyclopedia. She has received fellowships for research in Israel and Poland.

Susan Pentlin is a Professor of Modern Languages at Central Missouri State University. She was a Fulbright Exchange Teacher in West Germany, attended a Fulbright Summer Seminar in Bonn and has also received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. She received her M.A. in German from the University of Missouri and her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She is preparing a new edition of Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary and serves as a Commissioner on the Missouri Commission on Human Rights.

Sanford Pinsker, Shadek Professor of Humanities at Franklin and Marshall College, writes about American literature and culture for such journals as The Georgia Review, Partisan Review, and The Virginia Quarterly. For many years he was the co-editor of Holocaust Studies Annual.

Timothy E. Pytell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Colorado College, is author of numerous articles on Viktor Frankl. He is currently working on a book for Cornell University Press, entitled Paradoxical Intention: Viktor Frankl's Struggle for Meaning.

Gila Ramras-Rauch is Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Hebrew College, Boston. Her research has focused on Hebrew literature, modern Israeli literature, the Bible as literature, comparative literature, and Holocaust literature. In addition to many articles, she published The Protagonist in Transition (Peter Lang Verlag, 1982) and co-edited and wrote the introduction to the anthology, Facing the Holocaust (Jewish Publication Society, 1985). She has also published the following two books with Indiana University Press: The Arab in Israeli Literature (1989) and Aharon Appelfeld: The Holocause and Beyond (1994) Dr. Ramras-Rauch was awarded a fellowship grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Martha Ravits is an Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Women's Studies at the University of Oregon and an educational consultant. She has published in the fields of American and European literature in both literary and interdisciplinary journals. Her specialty is twentieth-century women's literature.

Karen Remmler teaches German studies, critical social thought, women's studies, and Jewish studies at Mount Holyoke College, and co-directs the Weissman Center for Leadership. Her recent scholarship includes a co-edited anthology of Jewish writing in Germany (with Leslie Morris), a special issue of German Quarterly on "Sites of Memory" (with Amir Eshel), a lead article, "Encounters across the Void," in a collection on the unlikely history of German Jewish symbiosis, edited by Jack Zipes and Leslie Morris, and articles on the Jewish-German writer Barbara Honigmann, teaching the Holocaust, and issues of memory in contemporary Germany.

Jennifer Ring is Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialectical Analysis and The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt, as well as scholarly articles and chapters for volumes in political theory, feminist theory, and multicultural theory.

Theodosia Robertson is an Associate Professor in History at University of Michigan-Flint. She is the translator of The Eternal Moment by Aleksander Fiut (study of poetry of Czeslaw Milosz), Regions of the Great Heresy by Jerzy Ficowski (study of life and works of Bruno Schulz), and author of several articles and book chapters on Bruno Schulz.

Alan Rosen is a Lecturer in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of a book on typology and catastrophe entitled Dislocating the End, editor of Celebrating Elie Wiesel, and author of articles on Holocaust literature and film, including Eliach, Spiegelman, Wallant, and Wiesel. Currently, he is at work on a book tentatively entitled Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multiligualism, and the Problem of English.

Thane Rosenbaum is the author of The Golems of Gotham (2002), Second Hand Smoke, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 1999, and Elijah Visible, which received the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award in 1996. His articles, reviews, and essays appear frequently in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other national publications. He is also the literary editor of Tikkun. He teaches human rights, legal humanities, and law and literature at Fordham Law School. Currently, he is working on the forthcoming nonfiction book Immoral Justice: Cultural Obsession and Popular Discontent in American Law.

Michael Rothberg is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and the co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings in History, Memory, and Criticism (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2003). He is working on a book concerning intersections between post-Holocaust and postcolonial writings. One essay from that project on W.E.B. Du Bois has been published in The Yale Journal of Criticism.

Rochelle G. Saidel is the founder and director of the Remember the Women Institute, based in New York, which carries out academic research and cultural projects that integrate women into history. Her book on Jewish women at Ravensbrück concentration camp will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. A political scientist, she is also a senior researcher at NEMGE - The Center for the Study of Women and Gender, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author of Never Too Late to Remember: The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust Museum (Holmes & Meier, 1996) and The Outraged Conscience: Seekers of Justice for Nazi War Criminals in America (SUNY, 1984).

Ellen Schiff is a Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She is the author of From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, the editor of the first two-volume anthology of American Jewish plays, Awake and Singing and Fruitful and Multiplying, and advisory editor of Jewish American Women Writers. Her essays and articles are published widely. A frequent lecturer, she serves as a consultant on drama to the National Foundation of Jewish Culture and a juror in its New Jewish Plays Commission.

Ernestine Schlant is a Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Montclair State University. She is author of two studies on the Austrian refugee Hermann Brock, numerous articles on twentieth-century German and Austrian literature, co-editor of Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan (1991), and author of The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust (1999).

Daniel R. Schwarz is a Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He has received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell Award for distinguished teaching. He is the author of the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999). His most recent book is Rereading Conrad (2001), and his previous publications include Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (1997), Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (1993), The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (1991), The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (1989; revised 1995), Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (1987), The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (1986), Conrad: The Later Fiction (1982), Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" through "Under Western Eyes" (1980), and Disraeli's Fiction (1979). He has directed nine NEH seminars, and he has lectured widely in the United States and abroad.

Mark Scroggins is an Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge (1998) and the editor of the collection Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky (1998). He has also edited a selection of uncollected prose for Prepositions +: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky (2000). He has published essays on and reviews of a wide variety of contemporary poets, and he is writing a critical biography of Louis Zukofsky.

Monika Shafi is a Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Utopische Entwürfe in der Literatur von Frauen (1989), Gertrud Kolmar: Eine Einführung in das Werk (1995), and Multiple Movements: Intercultural Encounters in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature (forthcoming). She has published on nineteenth and twentieth-century German authors, among them Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Drewitz, and Günter Grass.

Susan Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Recovering the Sacred: Ethics, Hermeneutics and Theology after the Holocaust (forthcoming). Her articles and reviews have appeared in Judaism, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religious Studies Review, Semeia, Concilium, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among many other journals and collected volumes. Shapiro has also been awarded a number of prestigious fellowships and grants, including a Harvard University Divinity School Fellowship in Women and Religion, a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Stroum Teaching Fellowship at the University of Washington, and an ACLS Grant.

Ziva Shavitsky is an Associate Professor and Head of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at the University of Melbourne. She is past president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies in Australia and also co-editor of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies. She has published many articles on Hebrew literature as well as books including The People of Israel in Exile, in Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia up to the Time of Alexander the Great and The Representation of German Jewry in 20th Century Hebrew Literature.

Efraim Sicher teaches British and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. A graduate of London University, he did his doctoral work at Oxford, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. His publications include books and essays on a wide range of topics in modern Jewish culture, as well as English and comparative literature. His collection of essays on Holocaust memory, Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz, appeared in 1998.

Johan P. Snapper is the Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of California at Berkeley. She has published 14 books; the most recent is a monograph on Marga Minco (1999) that is scheduled to appear in English in 2003. The majority of her publications deal with Post-War Dutch literature, especially the Shoah.

Naomi Sokoloff is a Professor of Hebrew language and literature at the University of Washington, where she has served as Chair of the Jewish Studies Program and as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her publications include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University) and a number of edited volumes, including Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (The Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (Wayne State University), Israel and America: Cross Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination (published in a special issue of the journal Shofar), and Books on Israel, Vol. VI (forthcoming, SUNY). Her essays on literary responses to the Holocaust have examined the writing of David Grossman, Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Jerzy Kosinski, Louis Begley, Gila Almagor, Aharon Megged, and Uri Orlev. She serves on the editorial boards of Prooftexts, Shofar, and Hebrew Studies. Professor Sokoloff has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays faculty research grant and of grants from NEH and ACLS.

Ruth Starkman is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at UCLA. She has taught in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Utah and the Departments of Rhetoric and Scandinavian at Berkeley. Her areas of specialization are twentieth-century German literature and film, the Holocaust, and postwar German culture. Recent articles have appeared in Seminar, Film Quarterly, The Historical Journal of Film, and Radio and Television. She wrote her dissertation on Austrian author Thomas Bernhard, and she is currently finishing a book length project on Jewish and non-Jewish writers in Austria after the Second World War.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), and On Borrowed Words (2001). His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.

Hartmut Steinecke is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Paderborn. He studied German literature, philosophy and history and completed a Dr. Phil. at the University of Bonn. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Cornell, Dartmouth, Michigan, Kansas, and Washington (St. Louis) as well as at several European universities. His books include volumes on theory of the novel, Hoffmann and Heine, contemporary German literature, and Austrian literature from Lenau to Broch. He has published more than 100 articles and two books, Hermann Broch and Jenny Aloni, as well as many articles about Jewish authors. His most recent work is: Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der neunziger Jahre. Die Generation nach der Shoah (co-ed., 2002).

Peter Stenberg is Head of Department of German Studies, University of British Columbia. He received a B.A. at Wesleyan, a M.A. and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Awarded Humboldt Foundation Fellowships in 1980 and 1985, he was selected for a Swedish Institute Fellowship in 1990. He has published many essays on Austrian, German, and Swedish literature, and a book on literary presentation of Yiddish and German in Eastern Europe, Journey to Oblivion (1991). His current project is Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden, an anthology to be published by University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Michael Taub is an Associate Professor in the Department of Judaic Studies at the State University of New York at Binghampton. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Vassar College. Taub has written many books on Jewish studies and translated Israeli drama into English. He is editor of Modern Israeli Drama in Translation (1996), and co-editor with Joel Shatzky of Contemporary Jewish-American Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook (1997) and Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (1999).

Nechama Tec is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. She is also a Senior Research Fellow for the study of Jewish Resistance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the museum's Council. Author of numerous articles, she has published book-length works, including Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Oxford, 1993), In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen (Oxford, 1990), When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland (Oxford, 1986), Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (Oxford, 1984), and Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust (Yale, 2003).

Claire Tylee is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University. She previously lectured at Leicester University, UK, and Málaga University, Spain. Her publications include The Great War and Women's Consciousness (Macmillan, 1990) and articles on twentieth-century women's writing. She recently edited an international anthology, War Plays by Women (Routledge, 1999) and a collection of essays, Women, World War I and the Dramatic Imagination (2000).

Sue Vice is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her recent publications include Introducing Bakhtin (1997) and Holocaust Fiction (2000).

Daniel Walden, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University, has published some thirty books, including On Being Black: African American Literature (1970), On Being Jewish: American Jewish Literature from Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow (1974), Twentieth Century American Jewish Fiction Writers (1984), and Conversations with Chaim Potok (2001). Editor of Studies in American Jewish Literature since 1975, Walden has taught courses in Literature and the Holocaust, Women Writing the Holocaust, and Jewish Literature: The International Perspective.

Eileen H. Watts has published articles on Bernard Malamud in MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Prospects for the Study of American Literature, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and on Malamud and Kafka in Modern Jewish Studies Annual. Her work has also appeared in American Imago, Modern Language Studies and The Journal of Psychology and Judaism. She has written on Malamud's use of the Holocaust in The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud (edited by Evelyn Avery), and has served as bibliographer for the Bernard Malamud Society since 1993.

Gary Weissman is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University. His essays have appeared in Confronting the Holocaust: A Mandate for the 21st Century, Part Two and Media, Culture and Society. A Fulbright Grant and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship have supported his work. His teaching interests include Holocaust studies, media studies, literary theory, and the visual arts.

Ruth Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture (2000), If I Am Not For Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992), I.L.Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (1991), A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988), and The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (1971). She is the editor of several volumes of translated Yiddish literature and a frequent writer on cultural and political affairs.

Hanna Yaoz is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Sal Van Gelder Center for teaching and research of Holocaust literature at Bar Ilan University. Her research interests include Holocaust literature, modern Hebrew poetry, empathy of high-school students with Holocaust survivors, values in education, and pedagogical methods. She has published four volumes on Holocaust literature: Holocaust in Hebrew literature as Historical and Trans-historical Fiction (1980), The Holocaust in Modern Hebrew Poetry (1984), The Scream and the Melody (1995), and Three Generations of Holocaust Poets (in Press), as well as sixty essays and articles.

Leon Yudkin teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at University College, London, and has lectured in the United States, France, and Australia. He is the author of Isaac Lamdan: A Study in Twentieth Century Hebrew Poetry (Cornell University Press and Phaidon, 1971), Escape into Siege: A Survey of Israeli Literature Today (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), Jewish Writing and Identity in the Twentieth Century (St. Martins Press and Croom Helm, 1982), 1948 and After: Aspects of Israeli Fiction (Manchester University, 1984), On the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg (in Hebrew, Rubin Mass, 1987), Else Lasker-Schüler: A Study in German Jewish Literature (Science Reviews, 1991), Beyond Sequence: Current Israeli Fiction and its Context (Science Reviews,1992), A Home Within: Varieties of Jewish Expression in Modern Fiction (Symposium Press, Science Reviews, 1996), and Public Crisis and Literary Response: The Adjustment of Modern Jewish Literature (Les Éditions Suger, 2001). He has edited five books and has published articles in the U.K., the U.S., Israel, and Europe.

Eric Zakim is an Assistant Professor at Duke University where he teaches modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature. His M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature were received from the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are "Palimsests of Identity: Israel at the End of the American Century," in Shofar, and "Between Fragment and Authority in David Fogel's (Re)Presention of Subjectivity," in the special issue of Prooftexts he co-edited on "David Fogel and the Emergence of Modernist Hebrew Poetry." He is now working on the relationship of landscape aesthetics and Zionist ideology.

Katarzyna Zechenter teaches Polish literature and culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She has written on contemporary Polish literature and has a special interest in Polish-Jewish writers. She has written on Jadwiga Maurer for Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (2002). Her other publications include nine articles on Polish literature for The Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism (Routledge: New York, 2000), "Homeland without a Home -- Tadeusz Konwicki's Experience of Home" for Home/ Less: The Polish Experience (2002), articles on Feliks Gawdzicki, Gracjan Piotrowski and Wincenty Reklewski for Pisarze regionu swietokrzyskiego (Kielce,1990), and an article on Hipacy Pociej and the Brest Union for Analecta Cracoviensia (1988). Her book Curse or Glory: Polish History and Politics in Tadeusz Konwicki's Fiction is forthcoming.

Wendy Zierler received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Whiting Fellow, she served as Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong where she taught ethnic American literature and American studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. Her book, And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.

Joshua D. Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of East European Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University. His Ph.D. was completed at Brandeis University. He is author of Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its Aftermath (forthcoming).